Hi Mark, > Can you confirm you have added yourself to the 'scanner' group?
Yes. I am in the scanner group: $ groups wir cdrom floppy audio video plugdev camera scanner vboxusers > Could I ask you to run `/usr/bin/hp-check -r` and report the results. OK. Logfile is attached. Thank you very much for your help! Ronny
hp-check[2763]: info: : Initializing. Please wait... Scheduler wird ausgeführt 1.3.7 Linux chrulli.selfhost.tk 2.6.24-1-686 #1 SMP Thu May 8 02:16:39 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux warning: Invalid ppd_dir value: None hp-check[2763]: info: : hp-check[2763]: info: :--------------- hp-check[2763]: info: :| SYSTEM INFO | hp-check[2763]: info: :--------------- hp-check[2763]: info: : hp-check[2763]: info: :[01mBasic system information:[0m hp-check[2763]: info: :Linux chrulli.selfhost.tk 2.6.24-1-686 #1 SMP Thu May 8 02:16:39 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux hp-check[2763]: info: : hp-check[2763]: info: :[01mDistribution:[0m hp-check[2763]: info: :debian 0.0 hp-check[2763]: info: :[01m HPOJ running?[0m hp-check[2763]: info: :No, HPOJ is not running (OK). hp-check[2763]: info: : hp-check[2763]: info: :[01mChecking Python version...[0m hp-check[2763]: info: :OK, version 2.5.2 installed hp-check[2763]: info: : hp-check[2763]: info: :[01mChecking PyQt version...[0m hp-check[2763]: info: :OK, version 3.17 installed. hp-check[2763]: info: : hp-check[2763]: info: :[01mChecking SIP version...[0m error: SIP not installed or version not found. hp-check[2763]: info: : hp-check[2763]: info: :[01mChecking for CUPS...[0m hp-check[2763]: info: :Status: Scheduler wird ausgeführt hp-check[2763]: info: :Version: 1.3.7 hp-check[2763]: info: :error_log is set to level: debug hp-check[2763]: info: : hp-check[2763]: info: :[01mChecking for dbus/python-dbus...[0m hp-check[2763]: info: :dbus daemon is running. hp-check[2763]: info: :python-dbus version: 0.82.4 hp-check[2763]: info: : hp-check[2763]: info: : hp-check[2763]: info: :------------------------ hp-check[2763]: info: :| RUNTIME DEPENDENCIES | hp-check[2763]: info: :------------------------ hp-check[2763]: info: : hp-check[2763]: info: : hp-check[2763]: info: :[01mChecking for dependency: cups - Common Unix Printing System...[0m hp-check[2763]: info: :OK, found. hp-check[2763]: info: : hp-check[2763]: info: :[01mChecking for dependency: cups-ddk - CUPS driver development kit...[0m hp-check[2763]: info: :OK, found. hp-check[2763]: info: : hp-check[2763]: info: :[01mChecking for dependency: GhostScript - PostScript and PDF language interpreter and previewer...[0m hp-check[2763]: info: :OK, found. hp-check[2763]: info: : hp-check[2763]: info: :[01mChecking for dependency: PIL - Python Imaging Library (required for commandline scanning with hp-scan)...[0m hp-check[2763]: info: :OK, found. hp-check[2763]: info: : hp-check[2763]: info: :[01mChecking for dependency: ppdev - Parallel port support kernel module....[0m error: NOT FOUND! This is a REQUIRED/RUNTIME ONLY dependency. Please make sure that this dependency is installed before installing or running HPLIP. hp-check[2763]: info: : hp-check[2763]: info: :[01mChecking for dependency: PyQt - Qt interface for Python...[0m hp-check[2763]: info: :OK, found. hp-check[2763]: info: : hp-check[2763]: info: :[01mChecking for dependency: python-ctypes - A foreign function library for Python...[0m hp-check[2763]: info: :OK, found. hp-check[2763]: info: : hp-check[2763]: info: :[01mChecking for dependency: python-dbus - Python bindings for dbus...[0m hp-check[2763]: info: :OK, found. hp-check[2763]: info: : hp-check[2763]: info: :[01mChecking for dependency: Python 2.3 or greater - Required for fax functionality...[0m hp-check[2763]: info: :OK, found. hp-check[2763]: info: : hp-check[2763]: info: :[01mChecking for dependency: Reportlab - PDF library for Python...[0m hp-check[2763]: info: :OK, found. hp-check[2763]: info: : hp-check[2763]: info: :[01mChecking for dependency: SANE - Scanning library...[0m hp-check[2763]: info: :OK, found. hp-check[2763]: info: : hp-check[2763]: info: :[01mChecking for dependency: scanimage - Shell scanning program...[0m hp-check[2763]: info: :OK, found. hp-check[2763]: info: : hp-check[2763]: info: :[01mChecking for dependency: xsane - Graphical scanner frontend for SANE...[0m hp-check[2763]: info: :OK, found. hp-check[2763]: info: : hp-check[2763]: info: : hp-check[2763]: info: :---------------------- hp-check[2763]: info: :| HPLIP INSTALLATION | hp-check[2763]: info: :---------------------- hp-check[2763]: info: : hp-check[2763]: info: : hp-check[2763]: info: :[01mCurrently installed HPLIP version...[0m hp-check[2763]: info: :HPLIP 2.8.4 currently installed in '/usr/share/hplip'. hp-check[2763]: info: : hp-check[2763]: info: :[01mCurrent contents of '/etc/hp/hplip.conf' file:[0m hp-check[2763]: info: :# hplip.conf. Generated from hplip.conf.in by configure. [hpssd] # Note: hpssd does not support dynamic ports # Port 2207 is the IANA assigned port for hpssd port=2207 [hplip] version=2.8.4 [dirs] home=/usr/share/hplip run=/var/run ppd=/usr/share/ppd/hpijs/HP ppdbase=/usr/share/ppd/hpijs doc=/usr/share/doc/hplip-doc/HTML icon=no cupsbackend=/usr/lib/cups/backend cupsfilter=/usr/lib/cups/filter drv=/usr/share/cups/drv # Following values are determined at configure time and cannot be changed. [configure] network-build=yes pp-build=yes gui-build=yes scanner-build=yes fax-build=yes cups11-build=no doc-build=yes shadow-build=no foomatic-drv-install=yes foomatic-ppd-install=no foomatic-rip-hplip-install=no internal-tag=2.8.4.2 hp-check[2763]: info: : hp-check[2763]: info: :------------------------------- hp-check[2763]: info: :| DISCOVERED PARALLEL DEVICES | hp-check[2763]: info: :------------------------------- hp-check[2763]: info: : hp-check[2763]: info: :No devices found. error: 'ppdev' kernel module not loaded. hp-check[2763]: info: : hp-check[2763]: info: :-------------------------- hp-check[2763]: info: :| DISCOVERED USB DEVICES | hp-check[2763]: info: :-------------------------- hp-check[2763]: info: : hp-check[2763]: info: : hp-check[2763]: info: :--------------------------------- hp-check[2763]: info: :| INSTALLED CUPS PRINTER QUEUES | hp-check[2763]: info: :--------------------------------- hp-check[2763]: info: : hp-check[2763]: info: : warning: No queues found. hp-check[2763]: info: : hp-check[2763]: info: :---------------------- hp-check[2763]: info: :| SANE CONFIGURATION | hp-check[2763]: info: :---------------------- hp-check[2763]: info: : hp-check[2763]: info: :[01m'hpaio' in '/etc/sane.d/dll.conf'...[0m hp-check[2763]: info: :OK, found. SANE backend 'hpaio' is properly set up. hp-check[2763]: info: : hp-check[2763]: info: :[01mChecking output of 'scanimage -L'...[0m hp-check[2763]: info: :device `hpaio:/usb/PSC_1400_series?serial=CN55DB40YF04BN' is a Hewlett-Packard PSC_1400_series all-in-one hp-check[2763]: info: : hp-check[2763]: info: :--------------------- hp-check[2763]: info: :| PYTHON EXTENSIONS | hp-check[2763]: info: :--------------------- hp-check[2763]: info: : hp-check[2763]: info: :[01mChecking 'cupsext' CUPS extension...[0m hp-check[2763]: info: :OK, found. hp-check[2763]: info: : hp-check[2763]: info: :[01mChecking 'pcardext' Photocard extension...[0m hp-check[2763]: info: :OK, found. hp-check[2763]: info: : hp-check[2763]: info: :[01mChecking 'hpmudext' I/O extension...[0m hp-check[2763]: info: :OK, found. hp-check[2763]: info: : hp-check[2763]: info: :[01mChecking 'scanext' SANE scanning extension...[0m hp-check[2763]: info: :OK, found. hp-check[2763]: info: : hp-check[2763]: info: : hp-check[2763]: info: :----------------- hp-check[2763]: info: :| USB I/O SETUP | hp-check[2763]: info: :----------------- hp-check[2763]: info: : hp-check[2763]: info: : hp-check[2763]: info: :[01mChecking for permissions of USB attached printers...[0m hp-check[2763]: info: : HP Device 0x4d11 at 002:002: hp-check[2763]: info: : Device URI: hp:/usb/PSC_1400_series?serial=CN55DB40YF04BN hp-check[2763]: info: : Device node: /dev/bus/usb/002/002 hp-check[2763]: info: : Mode: 0660 hp-check[2763]: info: : hp-check[2763]: info: :----------- hp-check[2763]: info: :| SUMMARY | hp-check[2763]: info: :----------- hp-check[2763]: info: : error: 2 errors and/or warnings. hp-check[2763]: info: : hp-check[2763]: info: :Please refer to the installation instructions at: hp-check[2763]: info: :http://hplip.sourceforge.net/install/index.html hp-check[2763]: info: : hp-check[2763]: info: :Done.